Bambery George (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. George Bambery's A Bulldog Odyssey (2004) is a lavishly illustrated tribute to Australia's streamlined General Motors "Bulldog nose" diesel locomotives, covering more than 50 years of service across the continent. It is regarded as one of the finest pictorial works on Australian diesel heritage. Locomotive Focus: Celebrates the streamlined GM cab units (nicknamed "Bulldogs") that became iconic in Australian railways. Classes Covered: From GM1, the first mainline diesel-electric locomotive on the Australian mainland, through to the Commonwealth Railways CL class, the last locomotives in the world built new with the Bulldog nose. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Internally clean with no prior owner name or inscriptions.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 160pp, num col photographs. Or black boards in jacket. Some silverfishing to bottom edge of boards, light edge wear to jacket-otherwise very nice. Evocative photos of steam trains at work and rest on the railways of the world over the 25 years preceeding publication. Includes some of the biggest and most unusual power operating in steam's declining years. Size: 4to.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 128pp, illustrated throughout with full colour photos. Papered boards in jacket. This third and final volume in the Famous Last Lines series draws its images from a single line in each of the continents that retained steam locomotives beyond the 1960s: Rio Turbio, Argentina: Saalfeld, East Germany; Kimberley, South Africa; The Coal Road, Australia; and Jingpeng, China. Size: 4to.…

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Outside the US and Canada, Australia is the only country where streamlined General Motors diesel locomotives were built. A celebration of the longevity and diverse employment of these seemingly ageless machines. Colour photographs throughout by Australia's top rail photographers. 30 cm x 27 cm. Scarce. Heavy book may require extra postage.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine quarto 160pp., col. pls., Fabulous railway photography from around the world.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book quarto 127pp., col. ills., maps.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New quarto 192pp., colour plates, Outside the US and Canada, Australia is the only country where streamlined General Motors diesel locomotives were built. A celebration of the longevity and diverse employment of these seemingly ageless machines. Colour photographs throughout by Australia's top rail photographers.…